Job Description
This mission-critical leadership role involves architecting, building, and owning a secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform on Google Cloud Platform. The Platform Engineer will transform existing infrastructure into a stable, proactive, and automated environment, taking ultimate technical ownership for reliability, security, and performance. Key responsibilities include designing secure cloud infrastructure, implementing Infrastructure as Code, optimizing costs, establishing observability, and providing technical leadership.
Good To Have:
- Experience with Atlas performance tuning and cost management for MongoDB.
Must Have:
- Architect, build, and own a secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform on Google Cloud Platform.
- Lead security hardening, including migrating services to private GKE clusters and implementing network security policies.
- Establish and enforce best practices for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Standardize CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable deployments.
- Drive cost and performance optimization across GCP, focusing on MongoDB Atlas, network architecture, and resource utilization.
- Implement a robust observability stack (logging, monitoring, alerting) and incident response protocol (SRE principles).
- Serve as the subject matter expert and single point of accountability for the entire platform infrastructure.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role with a strong emphasis on GCP.
- Expert-level knowledge of GCP services including GKE, Cloud Run, VPC, Cloud Storage, and IAM.
- Proven experience diagnosing, optimizing, and managing MongoDB instances.
- Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform is required).
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Perks:
- Work remotely Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (no weekends)
- 10 business days vacation a year
- 5 National Holidays a year
- 5 Company Holidays a year (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Zipdev Day)
- Parental Leave
- Health Care Reimbursement
- Active Lifestyle Reimbursement
- Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement
- Payroll Deduction Purchase Plans
- Longevity Bonus
- Continuous Learning Bonus
- Access to Training and Professional Development Platforms
Description
Role Mission:
To architect, build, and own a secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform on Google Cloud Platform. This is a mission-critical leadership role responsible for transforming our client’s current infrastructure from a complex, reactive state into a stable, proactive, and automated environment. You will be the ultimate technical owner for all aspects of the platform's reliability, security, and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Platform Architecture & Security: Design, implement, and own a standardized, secure, and automated cloud infrastructure on GCP. Lead the security hardening of our platform, including migrating services to private GKE clusters, implementing network security policies (VPCs, firewalls), and establishing the technical controls required for SOC 2 compliance.
- Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Establish and enforce best practices for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform is strongly preferred). Take ownership of and standardize our CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, repeatable deployments.
- Cost & Performance Optimization: Drive a comprehensive cost and performance optimization initiative across GCP. This includes a specific focus on diagnosing and remediating inefficiencies in our MongoDB Atlas implementation, network architecture, and resource utilization.
- Observability & Reliability: Implement a robust observability stack (logging, monitoring, alerting) and establish a clear incident response protocol to ensure platform reliability (SRE principles).
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the subject matter expert and single point of accountability for the entire platform infrastructure. Mentor other team members on DevOps best practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role, with a strong emphasis on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Expert-level knowledge of GCP services, including GKE, Cloud Run, VPC, Cloud Storage, and IAM.
- Proven experience diagnosing, optimizing, and managing MongoDB instances. Experience with Atlas performance tuning and cost management is a major plus.
- Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform is required).
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, Cloud Build).
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a demonstrated ability to operate independently and turn chaos into order.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to architect solutions from the ground up.
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